Brett Whiteley Studio Museum

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• If Sydney had an artist who best captured the spirit and light of the city, and in particular, the moods and hues of the harbor, it would be Brett Whiteley. His abstract expressionist come surrealist style seemed to reflect the artist's manic and often drug addled life. (He died of a heroin overdose on the South Coast in 1992.)
  Several overseas scholarships allowed Whiteley to travel and study around the world during the 60s and 70s, before settling back in Sydney, where his unique style won him two Archibald Prizes (for portraiture) and numerous other accolades and commissions.
  After his death (aged 53), family and friends sought to convert his inner city studio into a museum of sorts, a type of homage to the tortured artist, which includes unfinished paintings, sculptures, art equipment; even the graffiti Whiteley collected has been retained.
  The result is a rare insight into the working world (and mind) of a truly original creative. At various times, a series of changing exhibitions borrowed from private collections and galleries are on display.
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